Rosetta and Lion - Is there a solution?

Has anyone tried this?
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html

Last copyright date on that page is 2006. Says it will work with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).

I would be very dubious about it working with Lion.

Other caveats regarding hard drive size make it questionable, also.

From what it say on this site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PearPC

it certainly doesn't sound like anything I am going to rush out and install any time soon.

Allan

The reason I need Rosetta is that the scanners I own are run by software that was never released for OSX Intel. It is a real problem when perfectly good hardware, which has not been improved upon, is rendered useless by software upgrades. The problem is that neither the manufacturer nor Apple has any financial advantage to keeping this hardware supported --- only me.

The manufacturer's support pages say to use OS X's ImageCapture software or VueScan. But this strips out essential functionality of the scanners that is in the original software.

Here is where Microsoft's superior backward compatibility policy may help: by using virtual Windows in Parallels or VMWare to run the peripherals. I haven't put it to the test, but will try.

JB in WI wrote:

Rosetta will not be supported.

your only option is to partition your drive, install 10.6 on the new partition, and upgrade it to Lion, leaving one Lion partition, and one Snow Leopard partition.

This is not a solution for people buying new Lion Macs which may not (most probably are not) compatible with Snow Leopard as a boot volume.

Sticky wicket.

Rosetta is an Apple product. Like many other parts of their products, it relies on software licensed from other companies.

Rosetta is an Apple product.

No it is not, and never was. Rosetta was based on Transitive Corporation's QuickTransit technology, now owned by IBM. Apple had to do some work to make the PPC translator work invisibly with OS X, but they do not own the rights to the main code.

Why not use OS 10.6 ?

There is a group of Macs, and it's all or nothing because

Back to my Mac doesn't interoperate between MobileMe and iCloud, and other iCloud issues.

No iCloud in 10.6; no MobileMe in 10.7. Checkmate.

Ziatron's reply was to MauiTechnoGeek, not to you. Because of his scanners' problems, Mac OS 10.6 may be where he needs to stay.

There is no Rosetta in Lion. Rosetta is not an Apple product.

It doesn't look as though there will ever be Rosetta in Lion. (I hope I'm wrong about that.)

So, we either have to stay where we are or forge ahead, whichever works best for each of us.

I can't use 10.6 on a new Mac that comes with 10.7 installed. But I certainly have a reason to hold on to my iBook now as a device driver basically.

And clever thinking MauiTechnoGeek. I have a 50GB Snow Leopard partition, just in case I need to use any ppc apps before I am completely updated (although the need hasn't arisen yet) and the 450GB dedicated to Lion is flying along faultlessly.

MauiTechnoGeek wrote:

I can't use 10.6 on a new Mac that comes with 10.7 installed.

There is always eBay or refurbs from the online Apple Store. Get 'em before they're gone.

I saw the handwriting on the wall and bought my MacBook Pro before Lion was released.

All this sounds so familiar. Same old story when

Apple dropped the Classic environment.

MauiTechnoGeek wrote:

The reason I need Rosetta is that the scanners I own are run by software that was never released for OSX Intel. It is a real problem when perfectly good hardware, which has not been improved upon, is rendered useless by software upgrades.

Me too. I have a scanner that relies on software that requires Rosetta. This matters so much to me that I have gone back to Snow Leopard.